The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.13

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¹ Cf. Art. g.-b. du Gandh., fig. 58, a model of a stûpa from Amarâvatî, where the procedure in decorating the walls of the monument with the aid of bas-reliefs and the recourse to a promenade intended to facilitate access to the upper row of these latter are already clearly indicated. Let us add that the excavations judiciously conducted by Major VAN ERP have already borne fruit in the discovery of fragments of the balustrade, furnished with doors, which formerly surrounded the base of Boro-Budur.